The forked elephant in the room

[Walter Bright]

On 1/16/2024 12:23 AM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> However on that topic, I was going to do a Unicode talk for DConf Online this 
> year, but alas that kinda depended upon UAX31 identifiers, and you haven't been 
> too keen to approve that line of work so I haven't done it.

I have actually approved it. My mistake it was not properly communicated to you.


> Anyway regarding my stuff, a lot of the lessons learned from it have gone into 
> other work like PhobosV3 and Paul's work on allocators. Its going to show up at 
> DConf at some point I expect.

Good

> Now if only I could convince you about having reference counting... that's 
> another lesson that came from it. Good chance I'm going to have to drop 
> DIP1000/scope if that cross behavior isn't resolved tbh. I can bare the pain, 
> but I can't ask others to.

We've investigated ref counting several times, but never figured out a way to 
make it both efficient and memory safe.